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never strong, was badly exhausted. The ground was first prepared by being welk 
broken with a turning plow and a portion of it was sub-soiled. In 1861 he set upon 
this farm about 1,800 peach-trees. They were set in alternate rows, both ways, with 
apple-trees. This peach-orchard has been very successful, having borne four good 
crops. In 1866 he set 2,000 peach-trees on adjoining ground, which bore a partial crop 
in 1871, and an excessive one the past season. His next peach-orchard consisted of 
about 5,000 trees, which were set in 1868 and produced a crop the past season. In 
1870 he set about 6,000 peach-trees on the river bluff opposite Westport, Kentucky. 
If the season should prove favorable this orchard will produce a crop in 1874, when 
he will have over 14,000 peach-trees in bearing. ' 
Mr. Dean has about 25,000 apple-trees, 2,000 of which are in bearing, and consist 
almost entirely of such varieties ashave been proven to be adapted to this climate and 
soil. He has 500 trees of the famed cider-apple, “‘ Hughes’s Crab.” For the cider made 
from the fruit of these trees he finds a ready sale at $15 per barrel. 
On account of having to handle such a large quantity of raw peaches this season 
and the difficulty of obtaining good help, the canning and preserving department had 
to be conducted on a smaller scale than was first intended. It amounted to 350 dozen’ 
of three-pound cans of peaches, and about 100 dozen of peach-preserves, jellies, &c. 
Of the apple product he will make about 50 barrels of crab-apple cider, and 1,000 
gallons of apple-butter, selling but a small quantity of raw apples. 
Mr. Dean finds the best market for raw peaches in Cincinnati, and for preserved 
fruits in Louisville. The raw peaches he sent to Cincinnati this season amounted to 
something over 4,000 bushels, commanding a good price throughout the entire season. 
The gross receipts from all kinds and conditions of fruits will be something over $10,000, 
but the outlay has been larger than usual in such business. His peach-orchards are 
plowed at least twice each summer, pruned and wormed, and the fruit is thinned when 
the crop is excessive. In the preserving departments the best refined sugar is used, 
even in the apple-butter, and everything is done with the view of producing a first- 
class article in every department ; for such, a first-class price can always be obtained. 
Mr. William S. Dean commenced operations in the spring of 1867, by setting 2,000 
peach-trees and 700 apple-trees. In 1868 he set 350 peach-trees, and 500 in 1870. Last 
spring he set 1,500 peach-trees, and has made arrrangements to set 900 peach-trees and 
#00 apple-trees the next spring. Mr. Dean furnishes the following statement of tlie 
proceeds of his peach-orchards: Sold at Cincinnati in 1871, 375 bushels, amounting to 
$1,012; at other points 80 bushels, amounting to $120; sold at Cincinnati in 1872, 2,458. 
bushels, amounting to $5,648.20; at other points 100 bushels, amounting to $150. 
Average daily shipments during the past season 44} bushels. His apple-orchard, con- 
sisting principally of tested varieties, prominent among which is the Hughes’s Crab, are 
located upon the bluff of the Ohio at an elevation of about 365 feet above the river, 
its geological character being that of the gray or cliff limestone, natural underdrain. 
In the spring of 1868, Mr. Jonathan C. Davis, of Clermont County, Ohio, and Mr, 
William S. Greene, of Cincinnati, entered into copartnership for the purpose of culti- 
vating fruit in this vicinity. For this purpose they procured a piece of land in rear of 
Otto Landing, on which they set between 5,000 and 6,000 peach-trees the first season, 
and about 5,000 on another piece of land in the same vicinity, and they have since that 
time set out between 5,000 and 6,000 more. In 1871 the proceeds of their peach-crop. 
amounted to $1,000; this, however, included the crop from a small orchard which had 
been previously planted on the premises. The crop of 1872 amounted to 3,227 bushels, 
and the gross receipts to $7,740. The season commenced on the 17th of July, and ended. 
on the 4th of October, the shipments averaging 46 bushels per day. 
Mr. Davis is said to be the pioneer peach-grower of the West, having planted an or- 
chard in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1847. In that locality he carried on the business 
extensively and successfully for many years. He is emphatically a peach-grower, havy- 
ing given his whole attention to that branch of fruit-growing. As a result of his long 
experience he is thoroughly posted on three essential points, viz: How to grow peaches ; 
how to pick and pack them; and how to sell them. He has lately purchased a tract 
of land containing a little oyer 300 acres, and embracing the finest location for a fruit- 
orchard in this region. On this he will set 20,000 trees this spring, and will set somuch 
of the remainder as may be adapted to that purpose in a short time, perhaps next 
spring. 
The peach-crop of the past season was very large, amounting in the aggregate to 
9,985 bushels. ‘The season commenced about the middle of July, and closed the first 
week in October, during which period the shipments from Otto Landing averaged 143 
bushels per day. 
The peaches of Otto have become celebrated wherever known, and command the 
highest price in some of our principal peach-markets; consequently the growing of 
this fruit has become a leading branch of industry here, and from present indications 
it is reasonable to presume that at no very distant day all the tillable land on the 
river-bluffs in this region will be occupied with orchards. The peach does not seem to 
require a strong soil, and it is the opinion of some of the growers here that certain va- 
